Mispronunciation of car make/model
Discussion
Roger Irrelevant said:
Disastrous said:
Roger Irrelevant said:
Winston Churchill said:
It is the inalienable right of every Englishman to pronounce foreign words exactly as he pleases
...and I'm happy to go with that. After all if I'm visiting the largest city in Scotland I don't say that I'm off to 'Glazzgee'. The local colloquialism would have it as more like "Glesga" and it's a mystery to everyone North of the border where this "Glazzgee" that the Neglish say comes from. It sounds like Groundskeeper Willie.
tannhauser said:
Sid123 said:
poing said:
tannhauser said:
Sunnysider said:
I'd feel like a right knobhead if I referred to either my 911 or Boxster as a Porscha.
My cars, I'll call them what I want.
Worst "I have two Porsches" post ever.My cars, I'll call them what I want.
It is Porscha btw.
I say Porsh for the same reason I say VolksWagen not VolksVagen, I use my own native language to match the spelling as close as is reasonable.
If I speak english I say Lanseeya and if I speak italian I say Lancha (and would never dream of saying Lanseeya) because that's how it's generally said in english.
There's no need to try to say Ferrari or Maserati (or Lancia) like an italian if you're speaking english as it just makes you look like a pretentious t
t who likely has no language skills at all.....American English is closer to the correct word for Nissan than British English, although that bothers me since it's a nation that can't pronounce the name Colin correctly and don't get me started on Nokia!
What actually happens is we can pick and choose how we say things, there is only 1 correct way but that doesn't always seem natural to us so we say it as it's written in our own language. For the same reason I don't pronounce the E on the end of Nike.
As VlaD says, we do have some words that we pronounce a particular way which fits with the original word but that doesn't make alternatives wrong, it just makes them regional.
craigjm said:
poing said:
and don't get me started on Nokia!.
Please enlighten me as to your pronounciation of Nokia The American version suggests they've lost a Korean car: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA9Qfgw0PGQ
This guys covers all three options.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ4iwz8Vnp4&sp...
poing said:
craigjm said:
poing said:
and don't get me started on Nokia!.
Please enlighten me as to your pronounciation of Nokia The American version suggests they've lost a Korean car: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA9Qfgw0PGQ
This guys covers all three options.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ4iwz8Vnp4&sp...
Section 8 said:
I know it's petty but it makes my teeth itch when watching a car show and the presenter insists on saying the car name wrong! Example last nights Top Gear. Yeah i know he's a yank but ffs Le Blanc you are in the UK now it's Fiat ( fee-ut) not ( fay-yaght). His pronunciation of Abarth was way off too.
Mike Brewer made me want to slap his chubby face in when he droned on about a Camaro( cam-aero) calling it a (cam-are-o) over and over again. Cock!!
Clarkson just grips my st though with Volkswagen( volks-wagon) calling it (vowks-vagen). And a Cobra (co-bra) a (cob-ra).
Am i the only person that is bothered by this?? Dear God please say i'm not .I know i have issues but come on, they just sound wrong!
Mike Brewer made me want to slap his chubby face in when he droned on about a Camaro( cam-aero) calling it a (cam-are-o) over and over again. Cock!!
Clarkson just grips my s
t though with Volkswagen( volks-wagon) calling it (vowks-vagen). And a Cobra (co-bra) a (cob-ra). Am i the only person that is bothered by this?? Dear God please say i'm not .I know i have issues but come on, they just sound wrong!
I remember when he was buying a car from a punter Brewer saying, `The bloke wanted four grand for it, but I got it for free'
Roger Irrelevant said:
Disastrous said:
Roger Irrelevant said:
Winston Churchill said:
It is the inalienable right of every Englishman to pronounce foreign words exactly as he pleases
...and I'm happy to go with that. After all if I'm visiting the largest city in Scotland I don't say that I'm off to 'Glazzgee'. The local colloquialism would have it as more like "Glesga" and it's a mystery to everyone North of the border where this "Glazzgee" that the Neglish say comes from. It sounds like Groundskeeper Willie.
As the saying goes, "you have mair fun at a glesga stabbing than an Edinburgh wedding".
My old man is from Edinburgh though and he quite likes it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk1fjKd87WM
I've been saying this one all wrong.
I would like to retract my earlier disdain - I've just had a mental image of a Frenchman or Spaniard switching into a heavily-affected English accent halfway through a sentence to say "Rover 75" or "Bentley Continental". It would sound bizarre to me, it would sound bizarre to their French or Spanish peers.
So I would like to change my view to "don't really care".
But only so long as they don't pronounce "Ford Ka" as "Ford Kay-Aye". I've literally never heard that (and now never read it) without the word "actually" before or after.
I've been saying this one all wrong.
I would like to retract my earlier disdain - I've just had a mental image of a Frenchman or Spaniard switching into a heavily-affected English accent halfway through a sentence to say "Rover 75" or "Bentley Continental". It would sound bizarre to me, it would sound bizarre to their French or Spanish peers.
So I would like to change my view to "don't really care".
But only so long as they don't pronounce "Ford Ka" as "Ford Kay-Aye". I've literally never heard that (and now never read it) without the word "actually" before or after.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY-5dn3t4xM
I will just leave this one here...I have never heard anybody in the UK pronounce it correctly.
I will just leave this one here...I have never heard anybody in the UK pronounce it correctly.
MTech535 said:
Where the Americans go wrong I'd pronouncing a as ar.
Nissan = nee san = nee sarn in American
FIAT = fee at = fee art in American.
I grew up in the US and I have never pronounced though like that unless they are from the DEEP south. 99% of the country pronounces it like your first descriptions (nee-san, fee-at).Nissan = nee san = nee sarn in American
FIAT = fee at = fee art in American.
One of most hilarious nights working in the pub in Belfast was a local pissed up Taxi driver telling us all about his brand new Taxi.
Infact everyone that night had to hear about his "shemashmong rodus"
I have no idea how it's pronounced either but he wasn't getting close that night.
Infact everyone that night had to hear about his "shemashmong rodus"
I have no idea how it's pronounced either but he wasn't getting close that night.
fivepointnine said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY-5dn3t4xM
I will just leave this one here...I have never heard anybody in the UK pronounce it correctly.
That's how the US importers claim the Koreans pronounce it. The UK importers clearly disagree.I will just leave this one here...I have never heard anybody in the UK pronounce it correctly.
Have we got any native speakers of Korean in the house?
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